fearful

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɪəfəl/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈfɪɹfəl/

Adjective

fearful (comparative fearfuller, superlative fearfullest)

1. Frightening.
2. Tending to fear; timid.

   a fearful boy

3. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.
4. (now rare) Frightened; filled with terror.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]

Synonyms

• (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous
• See also Thesaurus:afraid and Thesaurus:cowardly

Translations

• French: effrayant, redoutable
• German: furchtbar
• Portuguese: amedrontador
• Russian: стра́шный

Translations

• French: peureux, craintif
• German: furchtsam, ängstlich

Translations

• French: terrible, affreux
• German: furchtbar
• Russian: ужа́сный

Translations

• French: peureux
• German: verängstigt
• Italian: impaurito, spaventato, pavido
• Portuguese: amedrontado
• Russian: испу́ганный
• Spanish: miedoso, temeroso

Adverb

fearful

1. (dialect) Extremely; fearfully.

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